Tag: election 2012

Fascinating voter registration numbers

September 12, 2012 at 11:03 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Maybe this has been reported elsewhere, but if it has I missed it. Consider the following data pointed out to NC Policy Watch by a local elections expert. It actually comes from the Pope-Civitas website called “Carolina Transparency”  (thanks guys!): 

Since January 2009 through the first week of September 2012 North Carolina has netted roughly 115,000 new registered voters. The net 115k gain comes from:

  • a loss of 110,000 Democrats, 
  • a loss of 8,000 Republicans, 
  • a gain of 222,000 Unaffiliateds, 
  • a gain of 11,000 Libertarians

This would appear to be bad news for Democrats.  It likely reflects older Democrats (many of whom may not have voted Democratic in recent elections) dying and dropping off the rolls and those voters not being replaced by new Democrats. 

But … Read More…

Final confirmation, once and for all, that Civitas polls are a joke

September 10, 2012 at 2:00 pmCategory:Uncategorized

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On one level, you gotta’ hand it to the Pope-Civitas people; they’ve gotten a huge amount of mileage out of their political “horse race” polls through the years (name recognition, the air of legitimacy, the chance to drive readers to their almost always absurd propaganda).

But seriously, if ever there was an example of why this stuff is regularly unreliable garbage that the mainstream news media need to, once and for all, STOP reporting on, this is it: Today, the Pope Civitas people reported that their latest “poll” shows that 30% of African American North Carolinians support Mitt Romney for president.     

Obviously, this is absurd. A third grader would understand this. As one commenter on the Civitas blog noted: Read More…

The convention craze begins

August 28, 2012 at 11:25 amCategory:Uncategorized

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As people here in North Carolina are scrambling getting ready for the DNC in Charlotte, down in Florida the GOP are starting their convention, already delayed by Isaac.

For those interested, here is a round-up of what all you can find on TV coverage.

YouTube has also put together this really cool page for politics that presumably will cover both conventions and the rest of the election season this year: YouTube Politics.